ridertech

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

Yes for personal use (really just Basecamp). No for app development...

I always use Facebook Connect (via Facebooker plugin) over OpenID authentication. The adoption rate and viral advantages of Facebook are unmatched.

ridertech

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

Awesome - I'm going to Shanghai in the fall and this is very fun to pan around. Now if only I could read Chinese.

ridertech

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

Yeah, TechCrunch got the "big sites" wrong as well as the importance of being an issuing party. Being a relying party is useless to FB's 200+ million users.

ridertech

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581085

ridertech

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

currently, it doesn't seem to check back if your followers have increased.

ridertech

vor 17 Jahrendiscuss

appssavvy is great to work with! (disclaimer: i developed the snow reports app mentioned)

ridertech

vor 18 Jahrendiscuss

go long, stay open (beware proprietary platforms)

ridertech

vor 18 Jahrendiscuss

rfeedparser looks perfect, but i'm in dependency hell...

Gem::Exception (can't activate hpricot (= 0.6), already activated hpricot-0.6.164])

ridertech

vor 18 Jahrendiscuss

I've used Drupal's aggregator module in the past, and it often has issue with the publish dates and/or whether a link already exists.

ridertech

vor 18 Jahrendiscuss

Thanks Peter! I was looking into FeedTools... http://sporkmonger.com/2008/2/1/feedtools-0-2-27

But I'll probably just build something custom w/ Ruby. I was hoping someone else had already done the work and open sourced it ;)

ridertech

vor 18 Jahrendiscuss

Sorry, I'm looking to build an app that aggregates feeds, not a normal "consumer app"

ridertech

vor 18 Jahrendiscuss

I wish Facebook Connect would be compatible with OpenID.

ridertech

vor 18 Jahrendiscuss

Perfect of example of "entrepreneurs solving bigger problems" (recent theme of O'Reilly).

ridertech

vor 18 Jahrendiscuss

vidpath.com (.net|.org)